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Old 25-09-2005, 8:38 AM   #1 (permalink)
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FreeView Help

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I am thinking of buying a freeview box for my bedroom.
I use to have sky digital in my room and i still use the arial lead for my tv witch is connected to the sky digibox downstaires.
I was wondering can i have the sky lead plugged into the freeview box or will i need to get a new arial all together.

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Old 25-09-2005, 8:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You can plug the aerial cable from downstairs into the Freeview box. It could well work without any problems, but there's no guarantees.
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Old 25-09-2005, 8:53 AM   #3 (permalink)
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But it would be hard to do. Im only 14 lol. But i was thinking that i might be able to put the freeview box through the sky box and then that would go to the Sky dish.
I can recieve normal chanals at the minute. and it uses a normal coaxial cable from the sky box to my room

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If you can receive non-satellite (terrestrial) channels down that co-axial cable, then all you need to do is to plug it into the Freeview box, and use a short co-axial cable to connect the Freeview box to the TV. As long as you have a scart socket in the back of the TV in your room, the Freeview box should work, but (as I said before) there's no guarantees
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Thanks Nick for all your help.
I think i will go buy one today maybe.
Ill post back if it works or not

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Try getting one from Argos. Then if it doesn't work, take it back for a refund.
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